https://instagr.am/p/DaqXhO-Jm3f real talk: the shockster would rather do the hang with becky g than fellow haas biz ad grad/future head coach in waiting mike saffell & coach lup (not a geography major, don't know **** about maps)!!
the university of california, berkeley=#1 ranked public university in the WORLD (for those willing to put in the hard work: berkeley, stanford & the ivy league aren't for everyone)
The World University Rankings 2026 have just been published.
The performance of Asia’s top universities has stalled for the first time in 14 years, while the US continues to decline.
2026 the KING is dead golf tournament: 3rd round update
https://instagr.am/p/DanYqd3FEFd max homa (68, tied for 45th): fast ascending future sr citizen (talking to a realtor about him & lacey moving across town from scottsdale to a del webb retirement community in sun city with tuesday nite bingo/5:00 pm early dinner buffets!!) maxazillion scored in the 60s despite 4/maybe 5 skanky as **** scrambling miscues around the greens!!
2026 dead elvis memorial tournament in kentucky: 4th round update
max homa (68, tied for 39th): max continued his crisp ball striking this week finishing in the top 20 in the field in greens in regulation (53 outta 72)...now homa is making the intercontinental trek from louisville to the 2026 british open tonite & will be watching with his caddie john ellis (who looks kinda like a mean as **** parking attendant supervisor at dodger's stadium) the monster posted royal birkdale hole by hole you tube video, yeah the monster's FREE developmental work with his bears is never over!!
2026 british open update: fun fact: michael lives in a mcmansion in north dallas within close driving distance of a buc-ee's!!
It’s kinda amazing at the lack of AC in even the nicer homes in the UK
https://instagr.am/p/DaqiYXpCqxn rodeo dunes: the shockster played the currently private fabulous coore & crenshaw rodeo dunes (walking only no homes pure golf) in the middle of nowhere outside of denver kinda on the way to nebraska, it will open as a semi private facility in may of 2027 & will be arguably the best PUBLIC golf course in the country that's not on the west or east coast, this will be immediately the bandon dunes of middle america!!
2026 us amateur final qualifying: GOOD LUCK tomorrow to bears xihuan chang & matthew miyamoto in final qualifying at the nicklaus designed ruby hill in pleasanton (which will be a home game for our bears) and also trevor cox & sihao cong paired together as a final group twosome (huge advantage!!) along with graduated/departed daniel heo at mission viejo for the 2026 us amateur... ziqin zhou already got an invitation to compete for the title (which carries invitations to the 2027 masters and us & british opens) on one of the game's largest stages at the cathedral of golf merion golf club in ardmore pennsylvania!!
cal is a golf school (that got a football head coach that don't know **** about maps or something)
For the record, I’ve supported both the ACC and the Pac‑12. I have never disrespected the Big 12. I’m a traditionalist, and my ACC 2.0 story focused on how the conference could survive by leaning into its academic identity, especially if it eventually loses teams to the Big 12,… https://t.co/YZrFcB8rqf
1) respected journalist jim williams (7 times emmy award winner) thinks texas tech may join the acc 2) florida state to the taladega institute of technology conference (titc) after another noles 10+ loss season 3) the monster projecting leidy to modern yoga as a substitute yoga teacher16 (syt16) evaluated better than the shockster (syt17) based upon his lacking an elite ponytail game (plus don't got no scrunchy) and/or visible tattoos
^ fun story: shocky took shay on a michigan world top 100 golf daddy/daughter roadtrip (crystal downs, oakland hills, franklin hills, meadowbrook, indianwood, kingsley, greywalls, forest dunes & arcadia bluff) with her serving as my caddie ($150 bucks per loop, the pine valley going rate, plus a pga/high gpa bonus at the end of the trip) to help her save up some money before attending denver law school
so our 1st nite out (on 10 paws we stood tall) we're in downtown detroit checking out a brand new ramen place when leaving we see a bunch of walking traffic towards the arena...shay asks me do i think it's a baseball game or something??...dad says no, most of the young ladies are wearing dresses showing half of their boobs/azzs
shay checks her phone & says it's a concert next door do we wanna go??
we got nothing going on so dad says sure & shay buys 2 tixs with her phone for the front row
anyways it's drake (who as a canadian across the border view spent a lotta time in detroit) & migos (the shockster realized he ****** up his career choices, he should've been a "hype" man who basically got no musical talent but amps up the crowd by yelling **** like "croc pot" or "drop top" while jumping up & down like a dumb azz)
there's a guy standing by us ready to go on stage next, shocks tells the guy he's the only guy in the arena whose more excited to hear t-grizzly (america's storyteller) than that loser drake!!...shay tells t-grizzly that's 100% true, that cal's monster class has always featured his music, t thinks this **** is funny as **** as we talk for maybe 5 minutes & fist bumps the MONSTER before he's introduced by drake as "detroit's greatest mother******" and runs on stage!!
— The C-Town Rivals Podcast (@ctownrivals) June 28, 2026
is longtime SILENT commit/relentless worker dajohn yarborough related to AMERICA'S STORYTELLER t-grizzly & if so will our early playing time road grader refuse to participate in future summer s&c workouts in berkeley in order to tour/travel worldwide with his cuz t to monaco & ****??
the university of california=#1 ranked public university in the WORLD (including the shockster's preferred hotel de paris monte-carlo)
CONGRATS to sihao "+1 hair" cong & trevor "ice in his veins" cox qualifying today for the 2026 us amateur, they will be joining ziqin "mama's boy" zhou at merion golf club in ardmore pennsylvania!! * z is competing this week at the southern amateur championship at atlanta athletic club
final qualifying at mission viejo: trevor cox (68, tied for 3rd): 6 birdies including 3 clutch birds in his final 5 holes!! sihao cong (68, tied for 3rd): the congshow played his final 7 holes an unreal 5 under par!! daniel heo (70, tied for 14th): gutty performance but could not advance outta the 12 players for 1 spot playoff * thx to the usga for pairing trevor & sihao together as the only twosome in the last group out which meant they knew exactly what the had to do down the closing stretch, golf is more FUN when played/celebrated with ur friends!!
final qualifying at ruby hill: xihuan chang (72, tied for 28th): legit candidate to win next week the usga's 2026 boy's amateur matthew miyamoto (73, tied for 38th): big step forward in moto's confidence/development
https://instagr.am/p/DV9u9xwj8aq trevor, the shockster would like to apologize again for wondering why the **** u evah got a cal scholly after an underwhelming career at legoland high school with ur greatest achievement being winning the 3rd flite mother/daughter tournament at mickelson national, let's be very clear about this, shocky is 100% a total dumb azz!!
the monster got fully on board the trevor fan bus when he saw the below video with u & x which makes me oddly emotional, this says volumes about who u r as a human being on planet earth (and it's also a reflection of great parenting!!)
this is cal golf (high gpa/character remarkable athletes competing on the game's LARGEST stages at the CATHEDRALS of golf)!!#
^ the yardages depicted in this flyover are outdated, merion will play at least 6921 yards for the us amateur (the par 3 3rd hole got a botox stretched out 280+ yard new back tee that is almost on the 2nd fairway, etc.)
protect mother earth & planet earth (r u a sierra club member/donor??)#
It may have changed a bit since I played it (I say this about every course these days) but the great thing about Northwood is that they've kept the underbrush to a minimum. You may hit a tree or three every hole but usually you find your ball and have a shot, quite often into the green. Not necessarily unimpeded but...
2026 british open update: practice rounds work/prep
gotta luv the fresh/vibrant collin morikawa comfortable/cheerful as **** fashionista golf threads!!
https://instagr.am/p/B7bdckuDhlD the most worstest berkeley bear golf outfit this season wuz our boy max homa wearing an unreal ugly azz off white shirt with bizarro golden yellow masking tape stripes thru the armpits in the 3rd round at the cognizant in west palm beach, the good news is that max has made it safely from louisville kentucky to southport england & played a practice round today!!
and yeah michael kim (a disciple/product of cal's monster class AUTHENTIC STORYTELLING just like calgorithim, michael now got 3,000,000+ followers) always got interesting takes in sharing life inside the ropes at the game's biggest stages at the cathedrals of golf!!
Guess the temperature of my rental home when I walked in today and you get a personal memorabilia from the Open Championship
-It’s going to play easier than the back but there are more decisions to be made.
-1st hole is a prime example. I can either hit 4i, land it right of the bunker and have it roll out to about 270. Or it’s Driver over the bunkers and take my… pic.twitter.com/VvmqgOs3ip
the new rearranging the chairs on the titanic strawberry creek studios is producing ZERO compelling content (tightly scripted content is seldom perceived as FUN) in today's highly competitive 6 second attention span market economy, the problem is that it's run by NON berkeley grads (how do u tell the whole damn world the story if u don't got a ******* clue re: the berkeley experience??) just like those ****tards jay & jenny plus in a final fit of corporate sabotage/destruction before she got canned markeisha everrett (handpicked by jay & jenny who are recklessly enabled by a feckless chancellor) oversaw the vindictive deletion of much of the cal athletics library of videos such as the monster leading the storming the floor mob scene after the t-wall buzzer beater over them usc trojans...the biggest losers in this deal (football is thankfully now severed from these worthless bureaucrats) are the men's & women's basketball teams that will realistically continue to play in front of a couple dozen low energy sr citizens who can't remember where they parked their cars on gamedays, j cannot arrive in berkeley soon enuf!!
— Marshall Cherrington (@MWCherrington) July 11, 2026
cal's MONSTER offensive line#
Watch this guy's tape. Future starter, and maybe receives some reps as a frosh. After this high school season, he will come in a 4 star. Bertola also will arrive college ready. Other two guys will need a season or two of either coaching or training.
— James Campbell High School Football (Varsity) (@SaberFootballHI) March 20, 2026
100% alex, dajohn yarborough & isaiah bertola are gonna arrive for their cinematic debuts in memorial stadium ready to compete for very early playing time while josh bunni& ace herman-dawson already got the SIZE to play power 4 conference football but just need a little bit of seasoning before they make their marks with potty mouth coach famika's authentic mentoring/development
the shockster started this thread with this title because the o-line wuz the worst recruited position room in the program & desperately needed some help as our bears tried to compete with undersized & relatively unathletic o-linemen that couldn't move anybody in the interior power game or move in space against apex predator edge defenders
these 4 remarkable 2027 commits represent the greatest o-line class in the modern era for berkeley bears football!!
cal's MONSTER line (is NOT ******* around anymore, just ask moana)!!#
“It’s almost like he went from chasing Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy to chasing Grant Horvat. It’s like he wants to outdo every YouTuber in the game of golf instead of outplay everybody in the game of golf.” pic.twitter.com/oSoB6MYDdq
The best OL class in the modern Cal era was 2004 with
Mack (future NFL and college HOF) Nalele (started over 30 games in front of some AA running backs) Tepper (five year NFL career and had 28 starts and was first team Pac his senior year) Deemer (part time starter at Cal as a JC transfer, and a college football coach)
If the 4 recruits this year have this track record Cal will be in very good shape in the future.
As an aside, the 2004 class also included the highly recruited John Gibson, who suffered a drug overdose while at a Cal co-op, and tragically died. His death led to a movement at Cal for certain dorms and co-ops to be substance free living choices.
https://instagr.am/p/DX25zqfJFSy when the cali bears arrive at allegiant stadium on saturday october 3rd for the 12:30 pm kickoff, the rebels starting offensive line will include former bear jackson brown (pittsburgh transfer) & former cal recruit austin boyd (lehi utah)
the unlv offense will be sparked by potential mountain west conference mvp rb jai'den thomas (1036 yards last season with an explosive 7.0 ypc), the rebs lost last year's mercurial playmaker qb1 anthony colandrea in the transfer portal to nebraska & will be breaking in a new qb1 in auburn transfer jackson arnold...jks & friends could drop 50+ on a average d that is well coached/plays hard but lacks p2 talent
but hopefully everyone remembers how the san diego state ****show roadie to snapdragon stadium worked out last fall...
fun fact: the pga tour will be in st george utah (sub 2 hour drive to vegas) at black desert october 1st-4th, the shockster will be there on friday if any bears enter the tournament like max homa did in 2025
protect mother earth & planet earth (r u a sierra club member/donor??)#
It may have changed a bit since I played it (I say this about every course these days) but the great thing about Northwood is that they've kept the underbrush to a minimum. You may hit a tree or three every hole but usually you find your ball and have a shot, quite often into the green. Not necessarily unimpeded but...
This has just dropped on YouTube. This course is still beautiful and for my upbringing on SF public couses is perfect.
https://instagr.am/p/DTdV3-RgVMH What Boys Learn is a heart pounding literary masterpiece by a uniquely talented new author that asks the most disturbing question for any parent: is ur child a murderer & if so to what extent might u protect them??
this uncomfortable novel is set on chicago's affluent north shore (shocky substitutes the fictional "dartmoor pool club" for shorecacres golf club in his mind) with authentic characters that take u on a wild ride!!
and make sure all the doors to ur home are locked before u read page 1...
the last time the shockster made a don't miss recommendation it wuz for an unknown indie movie, the monster tole u that Anora would win the oscar for the best movie & that cbyf1 mikey madison would win the oscar for the best actress...yeah all that **** came true (where's the ******* ring??????????)
haha j, fortunately all of the shockster's 100+ annual rounds are walking (no golf carts), if a bear got my golf bag then ima probably dead or something
kinda looks like the mill valley 9 hole course, rite??
collin morikawa (68, tied for 13th): with an explosive 5 birdies in his first 10 holes morikawa shot in the 60s in the open championship for the 1st time since hoisting the trophy at royal st georges back in the day...questionable decision making on the brutal 500+ yard par 4 18th hole hitting a fairway wood off the tee box which left a 260+ yard 2nd shot from the rough...collin, ur arguably the most accurate driver of the golf ball on planet earth, u gotta move ur tee ball on this hole more than 238 yards brah!!
good news is that after playing in the significantly more windy afternoon today, collin tees off much earlier tomorrow morning & got an opportunity to post a score (the vast majority of the lowest scores from the 1st round wuz from the am tee times) in our quest for a 3rd MAJOR!!
max homa (71, tied for 60th): max continues to hit the ball well but made only an abysmal 59 feet of putts, like michael they both need to put in some extra time on the practice green prior to tomorrow's afternoon tee times
michael kim (73, tied for 106th): michael rolled in only 60 feet in putts on the slow 10.7 stimp greens, fully expect SPEED adjustments to be made mañana as the top 70 scorers & ties will make the cut and play the weekend
Btw… IMG rented the house next to mine and had a party with live music and club music until 1130 last night even though they assured us it would be til 10pm… I hope their players get some bad lies in the rough
the KEY to berkeley bears championship golf is not hitting the ball SIDEWAYS (the shockster is perfecting the sorta low key side eye stare at modern yoga)!!
2026 british open at royal birkdale: 2nd round update
collin morikawa (70, tied for 25th): the good news is that collin (leaning hard into the fashion playbook) is putting well enuf (a remarkable 194 feet in made putts for 2 rounds) to win a 2nd open championship, check out his 50 foot birdie BOMB on the 2nd hole!!
https://instagr.am/p/Da57q32AoKj the not so good news is that morikawa did not do enuf advance scouting preparations to fully understand many of the royal birkdale intricate course strategies...after yesterday's bogey on the 500+ yard par 4 18th hole after laying up off the tee with a sub 240 yard fairway wood into the rough, today collin again hit another sub 240 yard fairway wood this time into a penal fairway bunker down the right side which led to a double bogey 6
the correct play is for arguably the most accurate driver of the golf ball on planet earth is to pound driver down the left side of 18th hole which is protected by only 1 fairway bunker & whispy rough leaving around 200 yards to the green, his current strategy of hitting a fairway wood on this hole leaves 260+ yards into a significantly domed green that repels both left & right bounced in wood shots
where would morikawa be on the leaderboard if he had made better choices & made a par both times on the 18th hole??
this is eerily reminiscent of last year's us open at oakmont (which morikawa never bothered to visit in advance) when he took a start line not far enuf left on the uphill par 4 9th hole which resulted in his tee ball following the contours of the left to right sloped fairway into the punishing right rough all 4 rounds & multiple lost strokes because of his lack of course knowledge
yeah collin is the recently incorporated monsterloseurazz.com favorite to win the 2027 us open at his beloved pebble beach, he gotta lotta reps at augusta national & he's already played an open at the home of golf st andrews but is morikawa gonna stop being such a ******* stubborn dumb azz & get to the gil hanse designed pga frisco east to do his homework before the 2027 pga championship next spring??
look collin, there's a buc-ee's nearby at pga frisco (no sushi but tasty bbq brisket sandwiches, pro tip: bring a lotta dental floss)
https://instagr.am/p/DZ_OAjaFEFn max homa (69, tied for 51st): a FIERY as **** max wuz gonna miss the ******* cut when he channeled his inner kirk gibson & rolled in a 40 foot birdie putt on the brutal par 3 15th hole, drained a clutch 15 foot EAGLE putt on the par 5 17th hole & then saved par with a gutty 15 footer on the 18th hole!!
From waking up every morning before playing in last year’s Barracuda Championship to watch @TheOpen, to having a spot on the weekend at Royal Birkdale. pic.twitter.com/eMotamlo0t
yeah the ******* bear would not ******* quit, the bear would not ******* die!!
^ plz note the now thankfully retired ugly as **** fashion blunder what not to wear footjoy & mastercard logos on homa's shirt collar back in the day, sigh (shocky's all encompassing developmental work with his golfing bears is never done)
michael kim (72, missed cut): gotta luv my poly brah michael, it's time to fly home back to the states (not many chipotles in northern england)!!
His personality and breakdown of intense hooping at RSF including an endorsement of LeBron James
“I love smiling. I’m a happy guy. I love nature, basketball, football obviously. I’m a cool laid back guy that’s full of energy.” pic.twitter.com/pAkPwo0CyU
real talk: both adam & shocky got good gpas and luv hoops, nature, smiling, legoland and r mama boyz (we also hate cold as **** weather)!!
https://instagr.am/p/DYX9jUgEtyV the university of california, berkeley=#1 ranked public university on planet earth (including maricopa county, just ask adam, dajohn, gunnar, quaron, kyion, cooper, beckham & the bird)
max homa (67, tied for 20th): traveling intercontinental flights last sunday nite from louisville kentucky to southport england our cali bear is now 7 under par for his last 22 holes as he acclimates to links golf!!
Max Homa drains a fast 26-footer for birdie on 13 🫡
max homa=the ******* NATURAL (lasorda is very proud of max's relentless competitor no whining mentality lately)
collin morikawa (70, tied for 29th): following the shockster's course management player development strategy collin finally pounded a MONSTER driver 302 yards with a starting point at the left fairway bunker that ended up on the right side of the fairway for an ideal angle into the deep left pin position on the scary as **** par 4 hole which resulted in a stress free tap in par!!
https://instagr.am/p/Da8PV4TCTsj ^ rory got this right, **** the 9/11 terrorist financed soon to be declaring bankruptcy liv exhibition league golfers rahmbo (who lives a couple par 6s away from schulzy) & deshambles (a no respect for rules of golf cheater who is phony as **** kinda like mickelson)!!
Cal CB Ricky Fletcher on the Mississippi connections with Tristan Jernigan, Ashun Sheppard and Jimothy Lewis on the team
“It’s been a blessing. Small town Mississippi boys, just being able to come into a big place and do what you love in football, we’ve been growing even… pic.twitter.com/PLyrEWj5LG
great to hear that lockdown cornerback ricky fletcher (100% starter this fall), jimothy lewis (starting right tackle protecting jaron's blind side which did NOT happen last season), tristan jernigan (+1 athletic starter at the mike backer) & ashun sheppard (battling with derek wilkins for a starting defensive end job) are all bonding with each other & enjoying their west coast football/academic dreams & nightmares (for opponents on fall game days)!!
marshall cherrington & his hard working recruiting team will need to reevaluate the resource allocation of the program's energies after missing out on every deep south high school prospect in the 2027 & 2026 classes (the last signee wuz 2025's right guard justin hasenhuetl from rabun gap georgia)
16 of the 23 2027 bears commits (brodi rudnicki is actually the 1st commit for the 2028 class) are from cali with the remaining high schoolers from the targeted recruiting footprint of hawaii, texas, maricopa county & las vegas
https://instagr.am/p/C1sKUp9O4Ng ^ greg iles is one of shocky's favorite authors, he writes moving poignant novels re: the imbedded racism in the deep south & we're longtime email buddies (even tho we've never met in person)
2026 british open at royal birkdale: 4th round update
🚨💥🏆 #WINNING MOMENT — 39-year old Ryan Fox of New Zealand steps in and DRAINS the birdie on the 18th to capture The Open Championship & becomes the Champion Golfer of The Year. Incredible! pic.twitter.com/epaWwPJlWG
collin morikawa (69, tied for 18th): for the 2nd straight day collin followed shocky's 18th hole course strategy of pounding a MONSTER drive 331 yards with a starting point at the left fairway bunker which once again resulted in a tap in 4
if morikawa had greater course familiarity he would've utilized this knowledge in his first 2 rounds which basically cost him 3 strokes (shades of his ****** up starting line on the 9th hole at last year's us open at oakmont)
collin, if u don't take a couple of advance tournament practice rounds with gaming buddy kurt kitiyama prior to the next MAJOR at pga frisco east (the drivable tilden park uphill par 4 14th hole is the goofiest short par 4 in the gil hanse design portfolio), that would be a SHAME (whether it be haas biz school finals or the majors, NOT doing ur homework will not end well brah, just ask saffell)
max homa (71, tied for 28th): homa could nitpick his +1 play on the back nine par 5s today but the reality is that with less prep time than anybody in the field due to his last minute intercontinental flights max's performance this week (particularly the late round heroics on friday to make the cut) wuz FANTASTICO!!
homa, let's be real here, ur still not the shockster's favorite dodgers fan
max & his teammate michael kim (now got 3.3 million followers, more than rory mcilroy, due to the cal's monster class authentic storytelling social media mentoring) are scheduled this upcoming week to play the pga tourney in the twin cities
michael, r u tryna to suggest that ima ******* blimp or something brah (the monster is wearing fashionista black balenciaga kicks while ur wearing ugly as **** 2nd hand white high school sneakers)??
Thoughts from the WM:
-I truly enjoy coming to this tournament. There’s very few tournaments that bring this level of energy. The atmosphere plus the design of the golf course fit really well together.
Jaron-Keawe Sagapolutele on the chemistry within the Poly house from his true freshman year and now paying forward with guys like TE Taimane Purcell
“When I first got here, being at the poly house was amazing. Making it feel like home made me fit right in. Seeing how great of a… pic.twitter.com/2IfWpNMiVZ
the university of california, berkeley=#1 ranked public university in the WORLD (just ask isaiah bertola, zion white, stanely "tutu kane" saole-mckenzie, aiden manutai, nainoa lopes, lebron williams, kamo'i huihui-white, esaiah wong, taimane purcell & jaron keawe sagapolutele)
shocky's work schedule for his 1st day out as athletic director:
6:45 am-run the strawberry hill fire trail with coach lup & tell him that if he evah again calls berkeley the #1 ranked public university in the "country" instead of the WORLD that 50% of all of his future paychecks will be routed/donated directly to the berkeley animal rescue facility
8:00 am-in conjunction with dan mogulof terminate the ****tards jay & jenny for a decade plus of failing job performances & their evil as **** roles with the berkeley women's swimmers with suicidal iterations due to racism & bullying thereby voiding the july 1, 2026 $500,000 employment contractual extensions by a feckless chancellor...reassign non transparent worthless bureaucrat delaney heller to berkeley campus parking enforcement
8:15 am-personally call every affected women's swimmer & tell them we're gonna settle this matter fairly & expediently
9:15 am-renegotiate the one side terrible deal with learfield that expires after the next athletic season, the reason the dollars involved in the dialpad patch sponsorship (shocky got the number but has been asked not to share this information) is not being disclosed is because those dollars are NOT going to the athletic department...when jay & jenny said "this is a historic moment for cal athletics" that's just more bull**** from deceptive bureaucrats
9:30 am-trim berkeley sports to a future financially sustainable ncca minimum 15 sports & "sell" evans diamond & edwards field to the central campus in an internal accounting deal to wipe out all current athletic department debt...zoom call with all remaining 15 head coaches advising that their teams are expected to compete for acc championships every year
10:00 am-tell lance cooper we're gonna build a statue for him in front of memorial stadium whether he likes it or not...coordinate a tee time with jason kidd at brook hollow for saturday october 24th prior to the smu roadie football battle for 1st place in the acc
10:15 am-promote valerie grimaldo (graduated from berkeley in 3 years) to run strawberry creek studios & direct her to terminate all non berkeley grads associated with that program that don't have a ******* clue re: authentic berkeley storytelling
10:30 am-meet with cal men's golf coaches michael wilson & peter ireland re: the undersized roster & tell them that it's expected that they will be personally working out with their players at 5:30 am 5 times a week at the high performance center to ensure sweat equity leadership (the team currently got less size/strength than the caldecott tunnel high school girl's junior varsity cross country team)
10:45 am-advise the athletic department staff that STORMING THE FIELD will be facilitated for all football & men's/women's basketball games on a go forward basis
Cal fans rush the field after the Bears capture a 24-21 victory in the 127th edition of the Big Game. pic.twitter.com/IVB78o6oX5
11:00 am-email to all berkeley students that effectively immediately they will be granted FREE tixs to all football & basketball games at the #1 ranked public university in the WORLD!!
11:15am-tender my resignation notice & promote berkeley grad andrew mcgraw (doubling his current salary while still handing football operations with a newly hired 2nd commander of staff over football operations) to serve as a football first athletic director
11:30am-leave the building & get 2 cheese blondie slices with a splash of oregano, tell oski if he don't get his **** together he's gonna be ******* replaced by buc-ee
https://instagr.am/p/BG2c9tghHcW noon-warm up quick round at the golden gate park par 3 course before an afternoon walking round at my beloved san francisco golf club (the shockster wuz a caddie there back in the day)
9:15 am-renegotiate the one side terrible deal with learfield that expires after the next athletic season, the reason the dollars involved in the dialpad patch sponsorship (shocky got the number but has been asked not to share this information) is not being disclosed is because those dollars are NOT going to the athletic department...when jay & jenny said "this is a historic moment for cal athletics" that's just more bull**** from deceptive bureaucrats
Was asked to comment so I'm popping in to the Monster Thread (Shocky, I'd tell you I'd visit your thread more if there was more Cal and less golf, but I suspect that would be like telling Steph Curry not to dribble so much. Who I am to make such observations and you probably wouldn't care regardless).
So what you wrote above has the interesting feature of being (mostly) true and wholly misleading. Let's set the record straight.
Yes, the DialPad money is not going to the athletics department. But what you're missing is that's a GOOD THING. In fact your BFF's Jay and Jenny strongly fought for the money to fund their bloated bureaucracy and I threw everything I had into opposing that outcome. Why? Because we didn't want the money going to athletics and not even football and MBB. What we wanted was the money going directly to the STUDENT-ATHLETES in football and MBB. And that's exactly what we got. This allows it to count as ABOVE THE CAP spending which is more precious than gold and diamonds and equally hard to find. It's an outside 3rd party using the NIL of our student-athletes (they are the ones wearing the patches after all) so the money can go STRAIGHT TO THEM. Just as God intended.
So no, this isn't a bad thing. It's a great thing. And regardless, it has absolutely nothing to do with why this hasn't all been publicly disclosed. That's just wrong. It hasn't been disclosed yet because DialPad wants the focus to be on the partnership and not dollars. Cal badly actually wants to talk about the money but they are deferring to their partner. Amount will eventually will come out but all I'll say for now is that it's a chunky number and one that is meaningful and also is the largest corporate sponsorship in the history of Cal athletics. Good stuff. And we have to sincerely thank the loyal and proud Cal alums who run DialPad for taking this leap and helping us all out. They are awesome.